On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:35 +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
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> Add an UART driver for the JTAG UART component available as a SOPC
> (System on Programmable Chip) component for Altera FPGAs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
[...]
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> +#if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE_BYPASS)
> +static void altera_jtaguart_console_putc(struct console *co, const char c)
> +{
> +       struct uart_port *port = &(altera_jtaguart_ports + co->index)->port;
> +       unsigned long status;
> +       unsigned long flags;
> +
> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> +       while (((status = readl(port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_REG)) &
> +               ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK) == 0) {
> +               if ((status & ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_AC_MSK) == 0) {
> +                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> +                       return; /* no connection activity */
> +               }
> +               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> +               cpu_relax();
> +               spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> +       }
> +       writel(c, port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_DATA_REG);
> +       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> +}
> +#else
> +static void altera_jtaguart_console_putc(struct console *co, const char c)
> +{
> +       struct uart_port *port = &(altera_jtaguart_ports + co->index)->port;
> +       unsigned long flags;
> +
> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> +       while ((readl(port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_REG) &
> +               ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK) == 0) {
> +               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> +               cpu_relax();
> +               spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> +       }
> +       writel(c, port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_DATA_REG);
> +       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> +}
> +#endif

I was originally responsible for adding the spin locks to these console
putc functions, but I'm not sure what the policy is regarding that, as
the 8250 driver doesn't use them for console output for example.

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